NEW ALBION VENTURES
New Albion Ventures (NAV) is a Silicon Valley-based Investment company committed to employing new technologies and innovative management systems to promote, fund, and develop a select group of Social Capital firms and Environmental start-ups.
To date, our principal focus has been on formulating better and more sustainable models of economic development. Through our strategic partnerships with leading and emerging companies in the field, NAV seeks to leverage the skills, knowledge and expertise of the best practitioners in both the public and private sectors to build an investment company dedicated to the development of game-changing technology.
Silicon Valley
VENTURE CAPITAL PROJECTS
VENTURE I: PACE FUNDING GROUP
Pace Funding Group (PFG) is a Silicon Valley based Fintech Company founded in 2014 and specializing in providing Clean Energy Loans to Homeowners throughout California, Florida and the southern Midwest. Revenues are generated by In-House Marketing staff, pursuing a Direct Sales Model, and to a lesser degree, by Third Party Finance Firms. PFG utilizes its relationships with these firms -– mostly regional Contractors and National Solar Lenders -- to establish a strong and rapidly growing presence in dozens of residential submarkets. The Company’s practice is to originate, bundle and sell the Clean Energy Loans that it underwrites to Institutional-grade Investors and other private Bond purchasers interested in owning Tax Assessed, Property Secured Debt. Essentially, PFG acts as a Mortgage Broker, and its earnings are generated through a combination of Underwriting Fees and Bond Premiums.
The nation’s first PACE Lending Program (Property Assessed Clean Energy) was implemented in the Bay Area in 2006 and expanded statewide by the California Legislature two years later. Aimed at addressing the failure of traditional FICO based credit instruments to service the market for Clean Energy products, PACE loans offer a variety of advantages to Homeowners over conventional alternatives (HELOC’s, Personal Loans, Credit Cards):
100% Financing (No Down Payments)
Long Payback Periods (Up to 25 Years) resulting in Lower
Installment Payments;No FICO Qualification Scores Required
Faster Approval Process (Initial approvals in the home within 5 minutes)
Debt remains with the Property, not the Borrower
In 2015, New Albion Ventures became involved in the first outside round of Equity financing for PFG. Since that time, we have participated in three subsequent capital infusions. The Company has used this capital for a variety of purposes: to hire and train personnel, recruit internal sales staff, build up IT Operational Management, develop proprietary software that allows underwriting teams to process home loans in minutes and to better communicate with contractors in the field, to fund Working Capital needs as the Company moves toward Securitization, and most important of all, to initiate the roll-out of PACE lending operations in markets throughout the US.
PFG ended 2020 with over a Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Clean Energy Loans funded during the proceeding 12 months and with Governmental approvals to underwrite additional Environmental & Sustainability efforts in more than 500 Counties and Municipalities nationwide. Year over Year, Net Assessments grew by 60% -- or roughly quadruple the volume of just two years earlier, making PFG one the largest Green Energy Lenders in North America. www.pacefunding.com.
VENTURE II: H2OPTX
Founded and headquartered in Silicon Valley, H2Optx is an environmentally responsible chemical & biologics analysis and monitoring company whose proprietary products and software are used by the Life Sciences industry and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to (i) increase Energy Efficiency (ii) reduce waste (iii) enhance production performance and (iv) accelerate manufacturing schedules.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
In addition to successful careers within Fortune 500 companies and thriving Silicon Valley startups, H2Optx’s team collectively holds over 200 U.S. patents in the following areas:
LEDs
software algorithms
semiconductors
optoelectronics
data communications
lasers
spectroscopy
signal processing
instrumentation
manufacturing test algorithms
mechanisms
material science
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Through a combination of completed and ongoing Joint Development Agreements (JDA), thousands of hours interviewing companies and collecting data, and leveraging the team’s collective experiences, H2Optx has created an energy efficient and sustainable portfolio of patented & patent-pending solutions for high throughput pharmaceutical assays of APIs, granulations, solid dosage formulations/de-formulations, and parenterals.
GAME CHANGING TECHNOLOGY
The H2Optx mPAT LAB hardware and MetaSuite software provide manufacturing companies, engineers and research scientists with a comprehensive view of the detailed chemical structures in a wide variety of pharmaceutical materials and allow users to complete chemical analyses in a fraction of the time and utilizing a fraction of the energy of conventional measuring instruments.
H2Optx’s proprietary integration of Raman, optical & UV imaging and microscopy enables fast and accurate identification of the widest variety of compounds. This integration, combined with robotic native sampling accessories, allows for unattended scanning and analysis of tablets and large volumes of complex powders, greatly reducing the need for Management supervision and manufacturing line downtime.
The H2Optx mPAT LAB integrates Raman spectroscopy, UV & VIS light spectroscopy, microscopy, and hi-res optical imaging with automated X-Y-Z surface scanning.
This seamless integration, combined with H2Optx robotics & native sampling accessories, enables novel capabilities for the 3D characterization of powders, tablets, cells, vials, liquids, and emulsions, resulting in:
Fast mixture analysis of complex powders down to 1PPM
Ability to process over 60 components simultaneously
Automatic sectioning of tablets with layer by layer hyperspectral scanning
User-defined layer thickness settings that range from 5 - 500µm
A 3D chemical map & structural analysis of an entire tablet or solid analyte
Chemical identification and hi-res imaging of excipients, beads, multi-layer coatings, and APIs
Accurate identification of > 90% of components within culture media
For a complete Company presentation of H20ptx’s products and services, please go to its website at www.h2optx.com.
VENTURE III: PACIFIC POWERGEN
Pacific PowerGen (PPG)
PPG is a Silicon Valley based Green Power company dedicated to making early-stage investment in Start-ups within the renewable energy field. Recently, the Company has become involved in an effort to develop a series of low temperature Geothermal wells located in one of California’s most active regions of proven underground reserves. Through the use of new and innovative technologies such as Organic Rankine Cycle electricity generation, PPG is able to provide customers with a reliable and cost-effective alternative to conventional utilities and to do so on a fully sustainable basis and with a guarantee of 100% recyclable heat transfer.